If It Isn't Fabulous, It's Meaningless

Letting go........

This is an example of the freedom in Design

Hutton Wilkinson

experiences everyday of his life.

*check out the conch shell wall planters, I have never seen anything more faboo!

Have you?

Click on these images and look closely at his every little detail.

It is not home design, 

it's a 'living stage design.'

What could be better?

I am not sure there is anything better than beauty.

My life is so incredibly stressfull......

(I haven't shared with you yet but I take care of my ex-mother-in law.

She is 94 yrs. old and is suffering from severe dementia. Need I say more?)

So, to me this break at the design center was just what I needed.

And look....is that Hutton Wilkinson over there on that sofa?

Yes it is.

I will just get a 'Glam Shot' for my design blog with him.

How do we look ?

I asked Hutton Wilkinson if he had one sentence that best describes how he feels about Design,

he said; " If it isn't FABULOUS, it's MEANINGLESS!"

Don't you love that ?

(I am smiling)

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Let John Saladino Transport You Too!

Always...

It is in the details.

I tore this room's picture out of a magazine, and have had it for years and years.

It is as timeless today as it was stunning, when it was first published.

I would still love to live in it.

His work transports me to another place and time.

Look at the fabulous dutch door.

Perfect for your horse. He can peek his head in to wake you.

A personal dream of mine.

The work around the fireplace mantle is divine.

I have attempted to recreate these sheer shades here in Florida to no avail.

I have shown pictures, every workroom tells me they can do it.

(and they are the top workrooms)

They can not.

Yes John Saladino  has his own line as well.

How can a sophisticated eye not love this chair?

And Yes....he has his own line of furniture.

John Saladino is highly educated and a gifted Interior Designer, Architect, and Landscape Architect.

Mr.Saladino does Corporate work as well.

Like Residential......

from the 'dirt up.'

The Architecture, the Landscape, and finally the blank canvas that is your new home's interior.

Corporate.

So, what do you think? 
Could you live in any of these spaces?
Does any space in particular speak to you?
Will you take something from this post and add it to your home?
XXX's Have a great day!


His Philosophy.

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OH SUSANNAH, DON"T YOU CRY FOR ME...FOR I COME FROM ALABAMA WITH A BANJO ON MY KNEE....

suzani's

The reason for the title is to help you memory challenged gals out there remember the pattern name.

Suzani.

I am challenged daily with remembering names.

For instance, there is a woman that I regularly see, she doesn't look like her name.

Do you know what I mean ? 

Every time I would run into her I would call her by the wrong name. The same wrong name every time.

Debbie.

Her name is 'Diane.' But she looked like a 'Deb.'

As you might imagine this was a tad embarrassing for me.

Finally I decided to use something that my first boss taught me.

' Name association.'

Anyway, back to Debbie... Oh, I meant to say DIANE.

Desperate and embarrassed at this point I was forced to use 'name association.'

Here is how I did it.

Diane is 'loaded' , not on booze, with money. Her husbands.

She dresses over the top. Everything is the most expensive that you can find.

She drives a JAG, her hair is always coiffed perfectly, and she is thin and tanned (or sprayed tan).

She sports a golf ball sized diamond on the hand she wears her Presidential  Rolex. On the other hand, ears fingers etc she wears the latest trend in fine jewelry.

Did I mention she is (on the surface anyway) very very nice?

No really, she is nice.

I have never seen her face move out of a slight smile when she is talking with other people.

She has had 'work' done. I know that.

Diane, like me, is 'Jewish Lite.'

Hence the name I finally gave her to remember her real name.

PRINCESS DIANA.

Ta dah!!!!!

F@$^ ing Brilliant!

Easy as pie.

I have never forgotten her name since.

ps guys...I maybe Jewish, but I am no Princess.

(only in my dreams)

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The pattern on these pieces is called a Suzani Pattern.

I am digging it. They are so very sixties.

So 'Serendipity' , NYC (a restaurant)

Someone please pass me their frozen hot chocolate please.

I just need a sip!!!!!

Oh yeah, about Suzani Patterns;

(oh susannah...don't you cry for me)

The word 'Suzani' is the Persian or Farsi word for needle and refers to textile panels embroidered with silk thread. The suzani was an integral part of a woman's artistic expression in Central Asia for hundreds of years. Traditionally, as soon as a girl was born her mother would start embroidering the suzani for her. As the daughter grew older, she would join in the process. The suzani would eventually become a part of her dowry and be used to decorate her home.

They are HOT HOT HOT right now.

I dig them.

Do you like the pattern?

How do you remember names?

I just used this pattern in a different color-way on some pillows on the job I installed yesterday.

I will take pictures and SHOW &TELL you later.

xxx's to my friends out there.

 I am off today, and my feet will be up. :)

* credits:

the boots are from : www.shoeblog.com  www.stanistandesign.com

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What Do You Say?

Do you think this was a good a good choice for a lamp on this table? 

Do you like the black table in this room?

*meow meow, where's my bowl of milk?

Sorry so short tonight , gotta go to work very early for a whole house installation tomorrow.

This house and these people are why I went into the business.

I love doing homes, particularly when most of it arrives all at one time.

It is so exciting!!!

Everyone is excited.

Just like it says on my sidebar,

I am a designer because I want to make a persons home their favorite place to be in the world.

Even after going on vacation, I want them to feel that their house looks and feels better than anywhere else.

I love what I do.

Especially when the clients are nice, pretty to look at, and COOL people.

Tomorrow I will be in my bliss. 

xx's RF

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Feed Your Faith And Your Fear Will Starve To Death

It will be a cold day in hell when I wake up fearless.

I struggle with fear.
Fear of the unknown.
Fear of not making my sales numbers at work, and then what will happen?
What will happen if I lose my job?
The economy is weak and people are not beating furniture showroom doors down to buy design services and furniture.

Yesterday I was on an emotional roller-coaster.
I had  meetings with two clients who bought nothing. One of them was an antique dealer and everything I showed him he thought was 'poop'. And well, yes, compared to furniture from 150 years ago it is.

But he and his wife still had taste in their rectums.....and I mean that in the nicest way.
You would have to live here to 'get ' what I am talking about. Boca Raton is a very tough environment.
Possibly the most difficult customers in our country. All they care about is their ADDRESS $$$, and their cars $$$, and their jewelry, their hand bags, and how little they can spend to give the impression that they are millionaires or billionaires.

The other client brought in his newly divorced ( 25 year old) ex-wife who is a sexy, gorgeous, skinny, with a boob job. a bombshell with her shirt open to her navel

  ....and still nothing was cheap enough.
I was showing him 2 Sherill Sofa's that were all upholstered beautifully. They were coordinated to go with his oriental carpet. The floor plan and everything was great.
He liked all of it. He just refused to pay for it.

CHINA, and( it rhymes with) 'Rooms To Blow'  have ruined us. People WITH money don't seem to care
anymore about fine quality. Forget 'fine' quality, they don't even want to pay for good quality.
As far as I am concerned, the furniture from some of these cheapo furniture places is worse than what we used to put in model homes. It wasn't furniture, it was just fashion to explain the space in a home.
If you were unlucky enough to buy the model home with all the furniture in it, and were unlucky enough to get the furniture WET.....IT WOULD EXPAND TO TWICE IT'S NORMAL SIZE.

In just 2 hours I have to show up for work and try to talk to strangers and sell myself. I am feeling beaten up from yesterday.
Today will take some work on my FAITH.
Will things be better today??? (oh please, please,please)

 Fear puts hopelessness in my heart.
I must remember that
"Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers;
fear disheartens, faith encourages"


I love you guys.
xx's RF

credits:
prozaciswack.blogspot.com
www.ccel.org

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From This.....

TO THIS !!!!

"Howard Slatkin, an interior designer with rarefied tastes—every inch of his apartment 

has been as custom-designed as a couture dress."

"Slatkin says, describing the 6,000-square-foot residence on Fifth Avenue he created for himself in the mid-nineties by joining two apartments, then demolishing every room so he could start from scratch. The process took three years."

"The building is a classic prewar, as were the two apartments he took over, but now, the minute you step off the elevator, you are folded back even further in time, into a world where comfort and elegance reign."

I love his confidence.

No Fear.

Pattern upon pattern!!

Can you appreciate this design job?
I know not many people could see themselves living in this space.
But, do I know any of you who could ??

credit: New York Times

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